I found this via one of my Google News Alerts.   I think its worth reading.  It was published in an Australian paper – The Age – the site requires a registratrion (free) to access some stuff so its reproduced here without pictures. A leading expert on counter-terrorism imagines the future history of the war on  Read more »

Brian’s grandmother passed away this morning at 8:30am.  We don’t know when the funeral is yet so not sure if we will be going up for it yet.  His mom called this morning to let us know she had died and to stress that if we weren’t able to get away from work to get up  Read more »

Brian and I were just talking…. When did national labor unions stop having TV commercials?  I remember them from when I was a kid -  legions of garment workers singing about looking for the Union Label when shopping.   I’m not sure how effective they were at the time in terms of making consumers think about  Read more »

I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick ‘Americans’ as their mascot. — Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

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